The cell saver during cardiac surgery: does it save?
Conservation and autotransfusion of autologous blood have been proposed as a means to decrease the homologous blood requirements of cardiac surgery. Use of the Haemonetics Cell Saver System to salvage blood shed in the sterile surgical field resulted in a net saving of 105 +/- 88.7 ml of packed red cells in 20 patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. The system is not a cost-effective way to save blood or decrease homologous blood requirements during routine cardiac operations.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged